It’s a salmon bonanza on the briny green. That is, providing you can make it to the fishing grounds.

Some commercial salmon skippers have been making $10,000 a day. At $10 a pound to the fish brokers, that’s $10,000 a day for 100 fish that weigh 10 pounds, dressed out. Never seen anything like it.

Sport anglers have been getting 2-fish limits of salmon that average 25 pounds, walking off the party boats with a giant salmon in each hand.

But there’s a catch to it.

The wind’s been howling on the coast the past three days and much of the past three weeks. It’s been blowing a minimum 10 to 15 knots, more like 15 to 25 since midweek, with gusts Saturday afternoon 25 to 35. Days where nobody can get out there.

The forecast for the wind and ocean to lie down in the coming week.

Here is Sunday’s marine forecast from the National Weather Service:

Today
SW winds 5 to 15 kt…increasing to 15 to 25 kt in the afternoon.

Tonight
SW winds 15 to 25 kt. Gusts up to 40 kt in the evening.

Mon
SW winds 5 to 15 kt…becoming W 15 to 25 kt in the afternoon. Patchy fog in the morning.

My full story about salmon, where they are, how big they are, how to catch them, and why these winds are a good thing for later this summer, appears in Sunday’s Chronicle and at www.sfchronicle.com/lifestyle/outdoors/.